Krista Blunk is a play-by-play commentator for ESPN, calling women’s college basketball and other sports, including men’s college basketball, softball, soccer and volleyball. She began working with ESPN in 1999 as an analyst for NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship coverage. She is also the television play-by-play voice of the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces and has called 3×3 basketball for NBCUniversal at the Tokyo and Paris Olympics.
Blunk has also worked as a sideline reporter and analyst for Westwood One radio’s coverage of the Women’s Final Four and has called games for Pac-12 Networks, FOX, CBS Sports Network and Oxygen. She handled play-by-play for all-women broadcast teams for the Sacramento Kings in 2021 and the Utah Jazz in 2022.
A four-year starter at Evansville from 1990-94, Blunk scored 1,123 points, ranks eighth in school history with 113 3-pointers and was named the NCAA Sportswoman of the Year as a senior. She graduated with honors in telecommunications and later played professionally in Australia and for the Kentucky Marauders of the Women’s Basketball Association.
Blunk began her broadcasting career in Evansville, Ind., and later worked on Golden State Warriors pre- and postgame shows. She was the voice of the San Jose Lasers, Stanford women’s basketball and, from 1997-2009, the Sacramento Monarchs. A native of Tell City, Ind., she is a member of the Tell City High School Hall of Fame and the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame Silver Anniversary Team.